A Business Plans Training Tool based on the Semantic Web Principles

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1 A Business Plans Training Tool based on the Semantic Web Principles September 24 th, 2008 Aristomenis Macris University of Piraeus, Greece

2 Economy shift From the traditional to the knowledge economy Traditional Economy Transformational Activities Knowledge Economy Interactions between people and systems

3 Strategic Advantage shift From ownership of knowledge to flow of knowledge Ownership of knowledge Individual champion (expert) Flow of knowledge Interactions between experts and groups

4 Knowledge Transformation Required Competencies User Acquired Competencies To be Acquired Competencies Skill Gap Analysis Filtering Combination Internalization Externalization Socialization Explicit Knowledge Tacit Knowledge

5 Development of Organizational Knowledge

6 A Case Study: Development of business plans Investors A strategic tool for external use Stakeholders The business plan An operating tool for internal use

7 The business plan as an operating tool manage the business more effectively, identify areas of weakness and strength, pinpoint needs, spot opportunities early, best achieve business goals, see problems before they grow large and help identify their source, thus suggesting ways to solve them.

8 The business plan as a strategic tool provides information needed by others to evaluate the venture, since a thorough business plan can quickly become a complete financing proposal that will meet the requirements of most lenders convinces readers of the entrepreneurs ability to understand their market, demonstrate their technical knowledge required in the field, and the company s ability to understand and respond to customer needs shows enterpreneurs ability to manage the business so it can be operated in a profitable way and repay the loans

9 Use a S/W package and fill in the blanks or participate? Fill in the blanks Understand the content and participate OR

10 The goal: Active users participation through training To enable users understand business process modeling concepts in general, with the objective to enhance and empower their ability in developing business projects by preparing good business plans

11 Ontology-based knowledge networks Capturing and representing scenario knowledge

12 Ontology-based Training Scenarios Concepts- Relations Instances Ontology Repository Knowledge Repository Multimedia Content Repository

13 The Ontology Repository Explicit Knowledge Tacit Knowledge Externalization Externalization Domain Experts record their knowledge on the particular field under consideration in terms of an ontology

14 Upper-ontology Constructs

15 The Content Repository

16 The Knowledge Repository

17 A Training Scenario: A high level view of the flow

18 Navigation to content

19 Advantages for the designer Reusability of domain knowledge Unique definition of ontology constructs Ontology constructs Inheritance Semantic web integration

20 Advantages for the user Semantic search Knowledge navigation Knowledge dissemination

21 Other domains of application Formulation of business strategy Healthcare workflows Sustainable Development Banking workflows Accounting Enterprise Resource Planning Business Process Management Workflow Activity Assignment Policies Etc.